4 ms·

I haven't spent much time there. How fast do they travel?

• jrockway 17y ago
  30mph - the cost of missing every stoplight.
• jsackmann 17y ago
  They travel at 30mph often, but not over very long distances. Imagine your stereotypical cab driver, with excessive acceleration and lane changes, and insert a stop every two blocks to add/drop passengers. Actual average speed depends a lot on the number of passengers. At rush hours, if you're walking at a fast pace you can outrace a bus. Only so much the driver can do when 20-30 people get on the bus at a stop.
• tlholaday 17y ago
  The last figure I saw for the average speed of crosstown traffic was 6MPH. The crosstown M23 bus is scheduled to travel the two miles between 11th Avenue and 1st Avenue in 24 minutes.